Gloria lives in a bubble, and made the mistake of thinking her extremely comfortable, highly secure bubble was the whole world. That's not surprising. Gloria only moves among other bubble people, from one gated bubble pad to the next, in her bubble transport system, where they don't talk about the turbo-fans and ICE V8's that power it all, or the staggering quantity of power it takes to climate control everything in her bubble world.

That's not new. We're ruled by such bubble folk, indulging their bubble concerns, pursing their moral panics, signaling their virtues, and carefully ignoring all else beyond the bubble.

What's new here is this: the consequences of this have reached the privileged students of our prestigious academic system. Suddenly it's not just the hoi polloi on the shit end of the stick. Johnny Winston-Blake IV is also having his future deleted by the bubble people. And he's mad about it.

There are not many U.S. style SUVs sold in the E.U. anyway. They don't fit on many parking lots or in parking garages.

That's pretty crazy. 100% US Grade A clown-world right there.

No one disputes that things may not work for you as they work for me. I don't have a car at all, and I am pretty sure that does not work for most other people. But in general, an EV might work for you because the reasons you cite might not really be valid, but based on misconceptions. And if someone who has experience with EVs tells you that you might not judge correctly, because you assume things about EVs you should not easily assume, you could try to listen instead of feeling attacked. It might be that in the end, you are really not a good fit for an EV (neither am I, hence no car at all), but it would probably not be for the reasons you think.

Thatâs actually not what they are saying, but what you like to understand. Instead, they point out that EVs behave differently than internal combustion engine cars, and criteria which are fine for the later donât match nicely with EVs. Instead of profiteering from the experience and knowledge of EV owners, you prefer to feel personally attacked. So be it.

It's all easy wins. Winning a war is hard. This is just chips, software and data.

The 120kW figure is indeed input power. Thrust is typically quoted in Newtons, not Watts. The input power is useful because it's a proxy for thrust and vastly easier to measure. Ultimately, none of that really matters, however: the real figure of merit for ion engines (all rockets, really) is Specific Impulse. When NASA claims these use 90% less mass for the same total impulse, they're saying it's about one order of magnitude more propellant-efficient than a chemical rocket.

Who cares. This stuff is still in its infancy, and new algorithms and new hardware is going to collapse all of this to commodity level value anyhow. A few years from now you'll buy a GTP-5.x/Mythos equivalent in a box for gaming console money.

Then the new BYD battery/charger infrastructure is the right thing for you, with recharge times of 7 minutes.

Let's make a list:

• Mercedes eActros
• Iveco S-eWay
• Volvo FH Aero Electric
• MAN eTGX

That are just some cab-over long-haul semi trucks I can think of from the top of my head. They are already running in truck fleets right now all over Europe. German YouTuber Elektrotrucker has a vlog running since July 2024 driving them on long haul services.

If you buy a platform from a company that once infected their customer's PCs with a rootkit, you deserve whatever Sony choses to inflict on you.

Enjoy.

Until my parents built their own bathroom into the apartment, we were using a bathroom which still had a coal fired boiler. So yes, we had the old infrastructure. My aunt, who lived in an apartment across the street, even had the water closet outside the apartment with a separate entrance from the stairwell. So yes, the infrastructure, at the time 70 or 80 years old, was still in place. And heating was done by tiled stoves in each room - every morning, my father had to light each oven, and each evening, we had to carry the ashes down to the trash bins at the road.

Luckily, wind turbines don't need much service. The farmer moves his equipment across his field way more often. You can schedule the maintenance during the time when there is no crops on the field. You also don't need to build the wind turbine as much away as possible from the next path. Why not place it directly beneath the access road which is already there? And for maintenance, you only need a small service van. If you have to replace anything large, you use the helicopter. There are not many mobile cranes which are able to lift something into 500 ft height. The rent contract with the farmer contains wording about the rules for access. As someone who has serviced cell phone antennas somewhere in the nothingness, I call that a non-issue.

As someone who grew up in exactly those supposedly haunted houses, I call bullshit. The house I lived for my first 10 years was built in 1905, the next house in 1895, and my children grew up in a house built in 1822. My brother moved into a house from 1378 (sic!), and has since moved into a house from 1890. None of those houses ever felt haunted.

I am still wondering which level of irony you are aiming for.